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1. Can you identify and describe nearby urban neighborhoods by their social class compositions? (p257-261 and...

1. Can you identify and describe nearby urban neighborhoods by their social class compositions? (p257-261 and p274)

2. Describe a. Upper-Class and Middle-class Urban Neighborhoods (p266-272). Specify Yuppies, Dinks, Buppies, Bobos

3. What is Minority Suburbs and how and where they exist? (P281-285)

Answer three of these question using the below book

Cities and Urban Life 7th Edition

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How did economic and class background differ among waves of immigrants and within waved of immigrants...

How did economic and class background differ among waves of immigrants and within waved of immigrants group? Which nationalities arrived with more skills and education?

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Why are grammatical mistakes that all children make as they acquire language important to psycholinguistics?  What do...

Why are grammatical mistakes that all children make as they acquire language important to psycholinguistics?  What do they reveal about the origins of the language?

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Hi I was wondering if I could get an explanation on how race, ethnic groups, multiracial...

Hi I was wondering if I could get an explanation on how race, ethnic groups, multiracial people, minority groups, dominanat groups, prejudice, discrimination and racisism all relate to one another?

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Define circadian rhythms and how the body's"bilogical clock" works and what happens when it doesn't Distinguish...

Define circadian rhythms and how the body's"bilogical clock" works and what happens when it doesn't

Distinguish between the basic processes of sensation and perception, explain how the doctrine of specific nerve energies applies to perception, and discuss how synesthesia contibutes to our understanding of sensory modalities.

Describe the basic principales of classical conditioning including the extinction and recovery of a classically conditioned response, how higher-order conditioning takes places, and the process of stimulus generalization and discrimination.

Compare and contrast social norms and social roles, and note how each contributes to the social rules that govern a culture.

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Can you think of any negative social consequences that nanobots would have on society? Nanobots are...

Can you think of any negative social consequences that nanobots would have on society? Nanobots are robots that are microscopic in nature, measured largely on the scale of nanometers. Currently, study is being conducted to see how these tiny robots can help fight cancer and shrink tumors.

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Question Three (Chapter Three): Review the slides here (Links to an external site.)Links to an external...

Question Three (Chapter Three): Review the slides here (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. on hearing vs. listening. What are three areas from chapter three which you would add to the slides? Explain each and give the page number.

Question Four: Explain why Julian Treasure quotes Jean-Luc Nancy: “Sonority is time and meaning.” Pick one of Julian Treasure's tips for better listening. Explain why it is important in human communication. (Review last post for the link)

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What are positive and negative reinforcement? How are positive and negative reinforcement different? How are they...

What are positive and negative reinforcement? How are positive and negative reinforcement different? How are they similar? What is punishment?

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Can you define Kant's categorical imperative?

Can you define Kant's categorical imperative?

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Question One (Chapter Two): Pick two of the theories of mis-perception: self-fulfilling prophecy, personality theory, primacy-recency,...

Question One (Chapter Two): Pick two of the theories of mis-perception: self-fulfilling prophecy, personality theory, primacy-recency, stereotyping, consistency, attribution of control. Explain them in your own words and give examples. 40-43

Question Two (Chapter Three): What is the difference between hearing and listening? Explain the styles of effective listening. (pages 61 – 67)

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"How vulnerable do you think your health is to environmental stressors? Do you think that your...

"How vulnerable do you think your health is to environmental stressors? Do you think that your physical response to stress has anything to do with your age? Your genes? Your personality? Your daily behaviors? Explain."

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Is there such a thing as a midlife crisis? Discuss the idea of a midlife crisis...

Is there such a thing as a midlife crisis? Discuss the idea of a midlife crisis in terms of the physical, cognitive, and psychosocial changes in middle adulthood. Also:

If you believe there is such a thing as a midlife crisis, what developmental changes in middle adulthood might be the cause? Why do some middle-aged people experience it and others do not?

If you do not believe that a midlife crisis exists, explain why you think this myth perpetuates in our society. What developmental changes (or perhaps stages, i.e. Erikson or Maslow) might be mistaken for a midlife crisis?

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When you're sick and your nose is stuffed, which of the following experiences are you most...

When you're sick and your nose is stuffed, which of the following experiences are you most likely to have when tasting different foods?

all foods taste the same since you've gotten sick
all foods taste like they normally do when you're not sick
all foods taste different from each other since you've gotten sick

smell is not related to taste

Airplane pilots many times learn new flying techniques in very realistic simulators that move and show simulated pictures of flying. Evidence on learning suggests that:

this real-life simulator will improve memory in real-life situations.
memory is the same regardless of where you learn it.
memory is worse when you learn something and are tested in the same environment.

the "realism" of the simulator is likely not important.

Your mother tells you about a news article that claims a major university found that ice cream consumption causes drowning. She is very concerned for your safety and suggests that you eliminate ice cream from your diet. You love ice cream, so you find the original study to see if you really should stop eating it to avoid drowning. You find that the researchers did not manipulate any variables in their study. Which of the following principles of scientific thinking should you encourage your mother to use in the future?

Replicability
Occam's razor
Fasifiability

Correlation vs. causation

Mary has a phobia of spiders. Her boyfriend puts a rubber spider in her purse. Mary finds the fake spider while looking for her phone. She begins to sweat and her heart rate increases. She also screams, throws her purse, and yells at her boyfriend. Mary's responses to the fake spider exemplify

Stimulus discrimination
an extinction burst
Stimulus generalization

Classical conditioning

You're at a dance club and the music is playing at the loudest volume possible, so the DJ turns down the music. How much of an adjustment in sound volume is likely needed for you to detect the change in volume?

A small amount
A great amount
A moderate amount

The amount of adjustment doesn't matter

Angela’s morning routine consists of getting up, brushing her teeth, taking a shower, and then eating breakfast. What type of long-term memory allows Angela to remember how to do this routine?

episodic memory
procedural memory
semantic memory

explicit memory

Janice woke up one morning feeling different. She walked to the bathroom in a clumsy way and, although she had no trouble holding her lipstick, she could not smoothly apply it to her lips. She got hungry while on campus and, although she could hold a quarter, she could not make the fine movements to put the change in the vending machine. Janice noticed she could initiate movements, but she had difficulty making smooth movements and walked with little balance. What part of Janice's brain was being destroyed by a tumor?

Medulla
Thalamus
Cerebellum

Hippocampusv

Marco snores at night and he sometimes wakes up struggling to breathe. Marco's doctor tells him that his airway is blocked during sleep. What is Marco most likely suffering from?

Lucid dreams
Nightmares
Night terrors
Sleep apnea

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What are Sartre's concepts of anguish, despair, and forlonrnness- please disucss these concepts.

What are Sartre's concepts of anguish, despair, and forlonrnness- please disucss these concepts.

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How would you balance the public services duty to loyalty, privacy and confidentiality against the public's...

How would you balance the public services duty to loyalty, privacy and confidentiality against the public's right to know?

Should the identity of the whistleblowing public servants be made public? Why? Why not?

Should whistleblowers be protected by law? If yes, how do you avoid slanderous whistleblowing?

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